Cayenne Red LEAFBut here, on a beautiful, but also cold mid-February evening in which everything seemed to mimic the Cayenne Red of the LEAF thanks to another blazing orange Colorado sunset, any LEAF sighting is indeed exciting. Especially for an EV fanatic such as me, and especially for someone who would really like to have one of the very first LEAFs in Colorado but who, for complicated reasons I can’t reveal, won’t be sitting in one for at least 18 months, perhaps longer.

I wanted to zip up next to this brand new LEAF — which was still sporting plastic covered cardboard temporary license plates — and give the driver a thumbs up. But I was trapped in the right lane in my oh-so-outmoded 1992 Acura Integra only about one mile from my exit.

So, I had to be satisfied with a short glimpse of the future of driving zooming along in a sea of gas puffing cars, and, I’m thinking, without any recognition of its revolutionary status from 99% of the drivers on this cold, beautifully cayenne Colorado evening.

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Christof Demont-Heinrich is founder, creator and editor of SolarChargedDriving.Com, which he launched in September 2009. A journalism professor at the University of Denver (DU), Demont-Heinrich is a lifelong environmentalist who loves to bird, hike, camp, and bike. As passionate as he is about the environment -- and about promoting the synergy between solar power and electric cars, he is equally passionate about writing.